leadership

The policing scandal in Birmingham this week — in which a senior chief admitted that a Microsoft Copilot output helped produce a false intelligence claim that fed into a decision to ban visiting supporters — is not primarily a story about broken code. It is a story about broken leadership: about...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s succinct advice—“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”—was featured as a Quote of the Day in a recent news roundup, and the line crystallizes a leadership philosophy that has quietly shaped Microsoft’s decade-long...

Stepping onto a reformer Pilates machine with my daughter, May Busch turned a simple fitness experiment into a concise playbook for moving beyond familiar limits — and packaged three practical lessons about guides, companions, and mindset that apply as neatly to leadership and careers as they do...

Diageo’s board has moved decisively to install former Tesco chief executive Sir Dave Lewis to lead the drinks giant’s turnaround, while in the advertising world VML confirmed that long‑time executive Mel Edwards will step away in spring 2026 — two leadership moves that signal corporate...

Rose Damen’s recognition at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show signals a moment of convergence for the superyacht industry: family-led heritage, high-end design, and an increasingly public commitment to sustainability and inclusion are now legitimate yardsticks of leadership as much as...

The workplace is being rewritten around a new vocabulary: AI fluency — the practical ability to think with, prompt, and supervise artificial intelligence — and a major new industry report shows that organizations which treat learning as continuous, work‑integrated practice are the ones gaining...

Satya Nadella’s admission that Microsoft “can do better” — made in the wake of sweeping layoffs, a newly enforced return-to-office policy, and a widening employee protest movement over the company’s cloud work — is the clearest public acknowledgment yet that the tech giant faces a crisis of...

The image of a senior Xbox producer advising laid-off colleagues to “lean on AI” for emotional support crystallized a moment that many in tech already felt: the tools companies are using to reshape work are now being pitched as a balm for the wounds they helped inflict. Within hours of a...

Amazon Web Services has lost Jon Jones, its vice president who ran the global startups and venture-capital outreach, in a move that crystallizes a wider 2025 pattern of executive churn and intensifying competition for AI talent across the cloud sector. Background / Overview Jon Jones joined AWS...

Satya Nadella’s blunt acknowledgement — “I think we can do better, and we will do better” — landed during an unusually tense internal town hall and has become the most visible signal yet that Microsoft’s leadership recognizes a widening credibility gap with its workforce. The admission followed...

Satya Nadella’s blunt admission that Microsoft must “rebuild trust” with its workforce landed at the center of a turbulent week for the company, as months of large-scale workforce reductions and a newly tightened return-to-office policy collided with employee activism and questions about...

When the first “employee” of a startup is an AI agent, everything that founders, investors, and HR teams thought they knew about building organizations is suddenly negotiable — from who gets hired and why, to how decisions are made, who owns accountability, and what leadership looks like in...

Satya Nadella’s blunt admission — “we can do better, and we will do better” — landed in the middle of a turbulent week for Microsoft, one in which leadership is publicly reinforcing an “AI‑first” execution tempo even as tens of thousands of employees and broad swathes of the tech press ask...

Satya Nadella’s practical, CEO‑level approach to AI boils down to a simple playbook: use AI to compress routine synthesis and surface decision‑ready evidence, but couple that capability with disciplined governance, measurement, and human oversight. In late August 2025 Nadella published five...

Microsoft has quietly rewired the rules of the workplace inside one of the world’s largest technology companies: in a coordinated set of moves, Microsoft has tightened moderation of internal communications, hardened campus access after on‑site protests, and announced a phased return‑to‑office...

Australian Data Centres’ new hires mark a decisive pivot from a single-site, Canberra-focused operator to an ambitious, nationally scaled provider positioning itself for sovereign, AI-ready, and hyperscale workloads. Background / Overview Australian Data Centres (ADC) — a privately owned...

Pittsburgh companies are being asked to treat change not as a periodic challenge but as an ongoing business condition—an expectation now baked into strategy, talent, finance and security decisions—and the practical playbook local leaders are using to stay afloat increasingly mixes rapid...

In a year crowded with corporate galas and “world’s best” trophies, the Blue Ribbon Award 2025 has positioned itself as something different: a values-first recognition platform launching on August 26, 2025 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the SRAM & MRAM Group’s...

GitHub’s top executive has publicly defended a controversial Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor employee use of internal AI tools into performance reflections — a move that has reignited debate over workplace AI mandates, measurement, and culture at one of the industry’s most visible...

A wave of seismic change surged through Microsoft in 2025, reshaping not only its workforce but also the very fabric of how its employees work. The company’s decision to lay off more than 15,000 employees in a sweeping reorganization sent shockwaves across the tech world, underscoring...